what they said

"Look, we had a bottle of milk, we wanted to deliver it on the front door of 500 million people - it ended up in some peoples fridges and indeed it ended up on some peoples cornflakes and some people were lactose intolerant"
- Bono on the release of Songs of Innocence

did you know

While the band and crew were working on the Joshua Tree album's mixing, Lillywhite's wife, singer Kirsty MacColl, volunteered to set the running order for the album. The band told her to put "Where the Streets Have No Name" first and "Mothers of the Disappeared" last, with the rest sequenced according to her preference.